Review: Bury Your Dead 7/25/2005

#22
July 25, 2005
Bury Your Dead
This Year Passed
The Ottobar, Baltimore MD

This is the 3rd Monday night in a row I've gone to a show...quite a streak. This was an off-date show for Bury Your Dead who are appearing on the second stage of this year's Ozzfest (which I could neither afford nor had time to see).

This Year Passed is a Baltimore metal-core band who looked kinda like 'Atreyu: Baltimore Edition' what with the matching black dress shirts and ties. I don't know if I trust a man wearing more eye make-up than me, but they were pretty good. They rocked hard in spite of the small, listless crowd.
4/5

Mmmmm....Bury Your Dead. Another hott Victory Records band - I would say that BYD is more metal than -core, though there is certainly a healthy dose of hardcore therein. Then again I wasn't really that focused on the music. I did get kicked a couple times when I was in the back because I was looking at the camera's LCD and not at the kids throwin down. I got some OK photos, but I'm still having issues with the stupid flash delay (which shouldn't be). They played a pretty long set and I don't think anybody in the place stopped moving the entire time.
5/5

And now it's time for this week's edition of 3 Ridiculous Questions with the Bass Player - tonight's player is the ebullient Rich of Bury Your Dead:

MoS: Now that you have a big bus, is there anything crazy on your tour rider? Is there anything unusual you would add?
Rich: We just have regular stuff - fruit, regular and diet soda, we still like PB&J...I guess one thing I might do is to require separated candies - like I might ask for 156 green M&Ms because I'm Irish. And I would count them all too, just to be sure...

MoS: Who picks the promo shots used on the Victory Records site? Some of them are just hideously bad (e.g. Atreyu's photos - not Bury Your Dead's though...)
Rich: We worked with a couple photographers but I guess Victory picked which ones to use.

MoS: What two Ozzfest bands would you like to see in a steel cage match?
Rich: [laughing - he acutally had to turn away for a second] Mastodon and Rob Zombie with his band.

Special thanks to Eric who showed me his neck tattoo as a result of my 'neck-tattoo' shirt. Yowza!